The future of recycling in beauty won’t hinge on one fix but rather require smart design, emerging tech and evolving policy.

“Plastics are an essential part of our world, but so far, the industry has failed to provide workable solutions at-scale to deal with the impact they have on our environment” – Tom Rose ...

Moving towards being “circular” is nowhere as simple as reducing, reusing, remanufacturing and recycling. In our study on designing a circular business strategy, my co-authors* and I traced the ...

Getty Images According to a 2021 Circularity Gap Report, the world economy is only 8.6% circular. Four years ago, in 2018, that number was higher, at 9.1%.

Right now, most of the world’s economy is linear: Materials are mined, processed, manufactured, sold, and then eventually dumped in landfills. But the idea of a circular economy—one in which ...

“In simple terms, a circular economy refers to the conservation of natural resources and waste reduction. It is an economic model which aims to produce goods and services sustainably, limiting ...

As vibrant colours continue to illuminate various sectors of the global economy, another quiet yet powerful transformation is currently underway — the rise of the circular economy. Anchored on ...

The circular economy is usually reduced to the 3Rs -Reduce-Reuse-Recycle, the concept is much more complex, presenting multiple ramifications that involve paradigm shifts in how urban environments ...

Brazil should do so too. The COP30 presidency could organise a first-ever circular economy theme day during the negotiations, as well as a high-level roundtable discussion on circularity.